No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
A library implies an act of faith.
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
To love beauty is to see light.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'